Life
Elizabeth Cary was born in 1822 into a Boston Brahmin family. Because of her fragile health, she received homeschooling. Following the marriage of her older sister with a professor, she began socializing with a group of intellectuals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1849 she met scientist Louis Agassiz, a widower, who had recently emigrated with his three children (Pauline, Ida and Alexander) from Switzerland to the United States. They married in 1850. She organized the household, took care of the finances and the children. She worked closely with her husband at his scientific research.
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